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RECENT RELEASES
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“This is a pitch-dark, highly original fable about family, ambition and the
redemptive power of cook-ing. By turns enchanting and grotesque, I couldn’t tear myself away from it.”
– Erin Kelly, author of The Poison Tree
£7.99 / FictionB Format Paperback978-1-78072-182-8
Richard & Judy BookclubSpring 2014
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“A superbly accomplished and gripping piece of post-
war noir”– The Times
£7.99 / FictionB Format Paperback978-1-78072-206-1
“A dazzling book”– Daily Mail
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delightful.”– Daily Telegraph
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£12.99 / BiographyB Format Hardback978-1-78072-153-8
“An affecting read….it takes readers on an emotional journey”
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“I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Gong
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“Hilariously funny... a brilliant insight into the
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“Tense, thought-provok-ing, an absolute must.”
– Daily Mail
“Relentlessly gripping.”– Independent
“Exciting and terrifying, wondrous and sobering.”
– ForeWord Reviews
£7.99 / FictionB Format Paperback978-1-78072-200-9
“Has a warmth, heart and humour that inspires, a
firm touch on the European state of mind
and European state of play, and more than enough to say about the ways of the world and their ills...
bizarre and unique.”– Bookbag
£9.99 / FictionB Format Hardback978-1-78072-164-4
“Anybody who wants to understand the modern English game needs to understand Wenger.”
– The Times
“An enthralling and insightful account of this intensely private man.”
– Tony Adams
£8.99 / Sport/BiographyB Format Paperback978-1-78072-219-1
“The only diet you’ll ever need”
– Mail on Sunday
“A health revolution.”– The New York Times
“The biggest diet revolu-tion since the Atkins.”
– Mail on Sunday
£9.99 / Diet/HealthCut-down Paperback978-1-78072-217-7
D-Day: Minute by Minute is pure chronological nar-
rative, an account of events both intimate and epic.
“Mayo has a great eye for detail that brings history
to life and creates a compelling narrative.”
– The Express
£14.99 / HistoryRoyal Hardback
978-1-78072-215-3
The Burden of the Desert
Justin Huggler
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Tuomas Kyrö
Wenger: The Legend
Jasper Rees
Fast Cook
Mimi Spencer
D-Day: Minute by Minute
Jonathan Mayo
THE REVOLUTION CONTINUES... @TheFastDietBook
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FAST COOKAVAILABLE NOW
£9.99 / DIET/HEALTHCut-down Demy Paperback
978-178072-217-7
INTRODUCING THE NEW FAST DIET COOKBOOK...
FAST BEACH DIETThe super-fast 6-week programme to get you in shape for summer…Mimi Spencer
Based on the original, bestselling Fast Diet, this modified approach will take you off cruise control and give your 5:2 lifestyle a summer-time turbo boost.
The Fast Beach Diet includes:
• A clear 6-week plan to encourage fat loss of up to 2lbs per week • New tips and tricks to get you through your Fast Days • Plateau-busting ideas to jumpstart the 5:2 • A brilliant new HIT exercise programme to maximise your fitness and fat loss – in just five minutes a day • 25 new calorie-counted summer recipes, and plenty of healthy speed cooking ideas for busy days
With detailed meal plans and extra motivational support, this book will get you beach-fit for 2014. Think of it as a boot camp for the 5:2. For six weeks only.
Mimi Spencer is a journalist and author. A feature-writer and columnist for titles including the Mail, the Evening Standard, the Guardian, Marie Claire, Harper’s Bazaar, Observer Food Monthly and Waitrose Food Illustrated.
£6.99 / 176pp / 08 May 2014 / B Format Paperback / ISBN 978-1-78072-224-5 / World Rights: Short Books
DIET / HEALTH
THE ANSWER TO THE RIDDLE IS MEA Tale of AmnesiaDavid Stuart MacLean
Imagine waking up in a train station in India with no idea who you are or how you got there...
At twenty-eight years old, David Stuart MacLean woke up in a foreign land with his memory wiped clean. No money. No passport. No identity.
Taken to a mental hospital by the police, who thought he was a drug addict, MacLean started to hallucinate so severely he had to be tied down. Soon, he could remember song lyrics and scenes from television shows, but not his family, his friends, or the woman he loved. All of these symptoms, he discovered, were the result of the commonly prescribed anti-malarial medication he was taking. Upon his return to the United States, he struggled to piece together the fragments of his former life. This memoir reveals that harrowing, frequently absurd and unforgettable journey.
The Answer to the Riddle Is Me confronts and celebrates the dark, mysterious depths of our psyches and the myriad ways we are all unknowable… especially to ourselves.
“Mesmerizing… Written in vivid, blooming detail.” – Gillian Flynn, bestselling author of Gone Girl
David Stuart MacLean is a PEN/American Award-winning writer whose work has ap-peared in Ploughshares and on the radio program “This American Life”. He has a PhD from the University of Houston and is a co-founder of the Poison Pen Reading Series. He lives in Chicago.
£12.99 / 320pp / 05 June 2014 / Demy Paperback / ISBN 978-1-78072-516-5 / UK & Commonwealth ex-Can: Short Books
NON-FICTION / MEMOIR
THE ENLIGHTENMENT OF NINA FINDLAYAndrea Gillies
Nina Findlay, alluring, accomplished, deluded, always the heroine of her own life, has found an irresistible safety in being adored by two men, brothers she’s known since childhood. But when her sister-in-law becomes gravely ill, the triangle that Nina’s depended on becomes catastrophically unstable.
The life she’s known begins rapidly to unravel, and odd things begin to happen which those around her insist are all in her mind. Separated from her husband, she goes on holiday to a tiny Greek island, and is involved in a serious road accident. There, while recuperating, she becomes close to her doctor, who’s also on the point of divorce. A new relationship seems possible - but what’s real in the situation, and what’s imagined?
A diary that was her mother’s proves to be a turning point. Perhaps romantic love is always a kind of undiagnosed madness. Face to face with the facts behind her assump-tions, the time has come for Nina to unravel the taut knot of her past.
“Gillies writes magnificently on everything she touches.” – Sunday Times
Andrea Gillies won both The Wellcome Prize 2009 and The Orwell Prize 2010 for her first book, Keeper,
which was prompted by living with someone with Alzheimer’s. The Enlightenment of Nina Findlay is her second novel. The White Lie, about a landed Scottish
family determined to keep a dark secret, was published to critical acclaim in 2012.
£7.99 / 362pp / 03 July 2014 / B Format Paperback / ISBN 978-1-78072-226-9 / UK & Commonwealth ex-Can: Short Books
FICTION
SCREAM: THE TYSON TAPESJonathan Rendall
edited by Richard Williams
Michael Gerard Tyson grew up in almost indescribable poverty in the ghettos of Brooklyn. Incarcerated in a young offender institution at the age of ten – when he was often mistaken for a man of twenty – Tyson discovered that he had extraordi-nary physical power.
In Scream, Jonathan Rendall presents an oral history of Tyson’s life, built around statements from those who knew him intimately from the beginning, including trainers, gym-mates and press agents.
First-hand reports are interspersed with Rendall’s atmospheric prose, which is immersed in the vernacular of the boxing ring. This compelling short biography chronicles the meteoric rise and fall of one of the most controversial figures in world sport.
Here, then, are the Tyson Tapes.
Praise for Jonathan Rendall: “One of the finest writers of his generation.” – The Dabbler
Jonathan Rendall was a prolific sports writer for the major British newspapers including the Telegraph and the Independent. His first book This Bloody Mary is the Last Thing I Own, about boxing, won the Somerset Maugham award. His second, Twelve Grand, was made into Channel 4 series The Gambler. His third was a critically acclaimed memoir about adoption, Garden Hopping.
£14.99 / 208pp / 04 September 2014 / Demy Hardback / ISBN 978-1-78072-221-4 / World Rights: Short Books
SPORT / BIOGRAPHY
HOWS YOUR FATHERRose Boyt
Rose Boyt was born and lives in London. She is the author of two other novels.
£12.99 / 362pp / 04 September 2014 / B Format Hardback / ISBN 978-1-78072-147-7 / World Rights: Short Books
“Rose Boyt writes with a vivid physical immediacy that can take the breath away. She is an original, with her own strange magic.” – The Independent
INTRODUCING THE FEMALE IRVINE WELSH…
Dear Maureen,Encl. one V.O. for you and one for Dawn because I know what your like you lean on that
girl thats if you come at all. But if you do come get me some tobacco PLEASE Maureen and papers and a pair of them glasses for short-sighted out of SUPERDRUG only £3.99? I’ll pay you back. and tell that fat lump Barry from me to look after the girls and let Dawn get out.
This is circumstances beyond my controle and not of my own making. You don’t know the half of it what happened what I go through with them boys. I’m sorry if I upset you but Billy is my own son and Alan likewise what if your Craig would you be able to turn your back on him. Look after the old man Maureen. Please don’t waste this V.O. from your mum...
What goes on behind closed doors? Hows Your Father tells it like it is from the inside: four generations of one Hackney family on a roller-coaster ride of drugs, violence, sickness, infidelity and the redeeming joys of motherhood.
Rose Boyt’s novel is a devastating, moving and tragically funny story delivered with the most striking and original voice to come out of fiction this year.
FICTION
Simon Barnes is the multi-award-winning chief sportswriter for the Times. He is also a novelist, nature writer and horseman, and the author of a dozen books, including the bestselling How to be a Bad Birdwatcher and The Meaning of Sport (Short Books). He lives in Suffolk with his family.
TEN MILLION ALIENSA Journey Through our Strange PlanetSimon Barnes
“Barnes brings the animal kingdom to life.” –Independent
Life on Planet Earth is not weirder than we imagine. It’s weirder than we are capable of imagining. And we’re all in it together: humans, blue whales, rats, birds of paradise, ridiculous numbers of beetles, molluscs the size of a bus, the sexual gladiators of slugs, bdelloid rotifers who haven’t had sex for millions of years and creatures called water bears: you can boil them, freeze them and fire them off into space without killing them.
We’re all part of the animal kingdom, appearing in what Darwin called “endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful”. In this breathtakingly audacious book, Simon Barnes has brought us all together, seeking not what separates us but what unites us. He takes us white-water rafting through the entire animal kingdom in a book that brings in deep layers of arcane knowledge, the works of Darwin and James Joyce, Barnes’s own don’t-try-this-at-home adventures in the wild, David Attenborough and Sherlock Holmes. Ten Million Aliens opens your eyes to the real marvels of the planet we live on.
“Barnes has a wonderful knowledge of wildlife and a gift for bringing his enthusiasm to life – he has a deft turn of phrase and a lyrical style.” – Rosie Boycott
£20.00 / 304pp / 02 October 2014 / Royal Hardback / ISBN 978-1-78072-142-2 / UK & Commonwealth ex-Can: Short Books
NON-FICTION / SCIENCE
DOG The Natural Way to Canine Health and VitalityKate Bendix
Did you know that just under half of vet visits are for an itch? Any idea what really goes into the food you feed your dog?
This book presents another way of having a dog, a holistic, natural guide to raising a happy pet who will stay healthier for longer – without costing you a fortune.
In Dog, straight-talking dog lover Kate Bendix draws on years of experience to provide well-researched, natural remedies and solutions for dealing with a range of common problems – from worms and poor digestion, to itchy skin, anxiety and ageing.
If you’ve got a dog that’s in need of a bit of TLC – if you’ve tried in vain to solve his gunky ears, if you want to find out why the food you feed him is probably responsible for most of his physical problems, if you have psychological or discipline issues and don’t know what to do to fix them – this is the book for you.
Why this book, and why now? There are eight million dogs in the UK, representing 22% of all pet ownership. Health is top of the dog-care agenda and the two fastest growing sectors of the pet market are natural and organic pet products and care.
Kate Bendix worked for many years in television documentaries, before setting up her website,
My Itchy Dog. She is an experienced broad-caster and features regularly on radio shows
discussing dog health. She also writes for the canine press/magazines.
£14.99 / 224pp / 06 November 2014 / Cut-down Demy Cloth / ISBN 978-1-78072-178-1 / World Rights: Short Books
NON-FICTION / PETCARE
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